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Two Chairs/Dos Sillas (from Dreaming in Reverse/Soñando Hacia Atrás)
Two Chairs/Dos Sillas (from Dreaming in Reverse/Soñando Hacia Atrás)
Two Chairs/Dos Sillas (from Dreaming in Reverse/Soñando Hacia Atrás)

Two Chairs/Dos Sillas (from Dreaming in Reverse/Soñando Hacia Atrás)

Artist (American, born 1957)
Date2010 (printed 2011)
Mediumpigment print
DimensionsImage: 8 × 8 in. (20.3 × 20.3 cm)
Support: 13 7/8 × 11 in. (35.2 × 27.9 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Dennis Cormier, 2012
Object number2012.15.5
DescriptionA semi-transparent woman in a white gown hovers slightly above two blue painted rocking chairs in a bare room with a red and white checkered floor and two open windows at the upper right.
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The artist traveled extensively in Mexico twenty-five years ago and was attracted to the “sense of spirituality and magic” he experienced there. Upon returning in 2010, he found it much changed by global consumerism and made this body of work to express his appreciation for the Mexican culture he had encountered earlier and his concern over its apparent eclipse. His style in these images draws on the literary model of Magical Realism in which fantastical elements are mixed with recognizable everyday elements.
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